Something in my inbox today

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Thought I'd share.

Like any parents, we were deeply concerned when our son C.C. began getting sick to his stomach on the way to school each morning.

At first, we thought he had fallen ill. But we soon found out a far more disturbing truth—that our son, a Buddhist of Thai descent, was afraid to go to school because his teacher was chastising him in front of his peers for his Buddhist faith.

As we dug deeper, we discovered that our son's sixth-grade curriculum at Negreet High included extreme religious indoctrination. The school itself was covered in religious icons. Christian prayer was incorporated into nearly every school event. And our son's teacher routinely preached her biblical beliefs to students and tested the children on their piety with exam questions such as this one: "ISN'T IT AMAZING WHAT THE _____________ HAS MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

When our son failed to answer religious questions like this correctly (the answer was "LORD"), his teacher mocked him for his beliefs.

No child should be subjected to the type of humiliation that our son has endured. The Department of Justice has the power to end this unlawful religious discrimination at schools in Sabine Parish and set an example for the rest of Louisiana—but we have to make sure they take the case.

Will you sign our urgent petition calling on the Department of Justice to launch an immediate investigation of unlawful religious discrimination at Negreet?

When we brought our concerns to the school superintendent, expecting compassion for our son's treatment, we found none. She informed us that we live in the "Bible Belt" and suggested that we transfer our son to another district school 25 miles away where, she claimed, there were "more Asians."

We did move our son to another school in Sabine Parish, but there, too, school officials regularly promote Christianity and we're concerned our son will again become a target for his faith.

Can you take one minute to sign our petition to the Department of Justice so that religious discrimination in Sabine Parish is put to an end?

Our public schools should be educating and preparing our children for success. But instead of learning basic skills, like science, teachers at Negreet High told students that the Bible is "100 percent true," that the earth was created by God 6,000 years ago and that evolution is a "stupid theory made up by stupid people who don't want to believe in God."

We don't begrudge anyone's right to their Christian faith. But we also don't believe that any child should be subjected to this type of discrimination. And we know that if thousands of ACLU supporters stand with us, we can push the Department of Justice to investigate and bring to an end the religious discrimination and indoctrination that forced our son to leave his school.

Please join us in calling on the Department of Justice to launch an immediate investigation into this unlawful religious discrimination so that no other child has to go through the harassment that our son has endured.

Religious freedom is a pillar of our country's democracy. Forcing your beliefs on another is not freedom; it is oppression.

Thank you for taking action with us,
Scott and Sharon Lane, for ACLU Action

The petition is at //https://www.aclu.org/secure/end_discrimination_negreet_high?emsrc=Nat_Appeal_AutologinEnabled&emissue=religious_liberty&emtype=petition&ms=eml_acluaction_140204_negreethigh&af=Ri6qyZJBNtDIcXf2oEtxTGY2rUs4wX9oYvso5tEAz5jfjN6TrL5IO%2FGWjxJtz03c%2BMqOrKDcdCYZrV1lo4eb8i4uP5fCeJXSPJPpXXWlDbnYcEV%2Fuzt5tkAGYReYxvBrphC%2FN16621f5rZ10%2FUpqkEPxFoSZ6VTrtAw1P%2B3DwA4Ij8mWL7qlWQCZ%2BuVk4G6Ns0QUlKdaRtminjIN8t7Zow%3D%3D&etname=140104+LA+Negreet+High+DoJ+Petition&etjid=1259677 (I think)

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Sorry its  hard to read.  :-|

[stromboli]

Yeah, saw this earlier. Amazing to me that people are allowed to teach in schools that are so intolerant. I would love to have had access to people from foreign countries with different cultures when I was in school, not the opposite.

[StupidWiz]

Disgusting shit.

[Hijiri Byakuren]

Could you fix the formatting, please? It's hard to read when it breaks the page.

[Shol'va]

Like any parents, we were deeply concerned when our son C.C. began getting sick to his stomach on the way to school each morning.

At first, we thought he had fallen ill. But we soon found out a far more disturbing truth—that our son, a Buddhist of Thai descent, was afraid to go to school because his teacher was chastising him in front of his peers for his Buddhist faith.

As we dug deeper, we discovered that our son's sixth-grade curriculum at Negreet High included extreme religious indoctrination. The school itself was covered in religious icons. Christian prayer was incorporated into nearly every school event. And our son's teacher routinely preached her biblical beliefs to students and tested the children on their piety with exam questions such as this one: "ISN'T IT AMAZING WHAT THE _____________ HAS MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

When our son failed to answer religious questions like this correctly (the answer was "LORD"), his teacher mocked him for his beliefs.

No child should be subjected to the type of humiliation that our son has endured. The Department of Justice has the power to end this unlawful religious discrimination at schools in Sabine Parish and set an example for the rest of Louisiana—but we have to make sure they take the case.

Will you sign our urgent petition calling on the Department of Justice to launch an immediate investigation of unlawful religious discrimination at Negreet?

When we brought our concerns to the school superintendent, expecting compassion for our son's treatment, we found none. She informed us that we live in the "Bible Belt" and suggested that we transfer our son to another district school 25 miles away where, she claimed, there were "more Asians."

We did move our son to another school in Sabine Parish, but there, too, school officials regularly promote Christianity and we're concerned our son will again become a target for his faith.

Can you take one minute to sign our petition to the Department of Justice so that religious discrimination in Sabine Parish is put to an end?

Our public schools should be educating and preparing our children for success. But instead of learning basic skills, like science, teachers at Negreet High told students that the Bible is "100 percent true," that the earth was created by God 6,000 years ago and that evolution is a "stupid theory made up by stupid people who don't want to believe in God."

We don't begrudge anyone's right to their Christian faith. But we also don't believe that any child should be subjected to this type of discrimination. And we know that if thousands of ACLU supporters stand with us, we can push the Department of Justice to investigate and bring to an end the religious discrimination and indoctrination that forced our son to leave his school.

Please join us in calling on the Department of Justice to launch an immediate investigation into this unlawful religious discrimination so that no other child has to go through the harassment that our son has endured.

Religious freedom is a pillar of our country's democracy. Forcing your beliefs on another is not freedom; it is oppression.

Thank you for taking action with us,
Scott and Sharon Lane, for ACLU Action

Hint: when in doubt, copy and paste the intended text into Notepad. That way you will strip all formatting. Then copy the text from Notepad and dump it here.

[aitm]

Oh it would be so good, if that teacher would find himself in some center of 'attention'.

I remember a movie (the title long since forgotten) where the parent ( john boy from..er whatever it was) faced his adversary in the restroom of the courthouse and told him, "be careful, while you think you can hide within the government, the government will NOT hide you."

Bring the shit and they will make that person the sacrificial lamb.

[stromboli]

This will no doubt become a cause celebre' of the xtian right for attacking the teaching of xtianity in school....